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def

dehf
adjective
1
Slang: excellent or very good.
"That new track is def, you have to hear it."

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Dated slang, strongly associated with 1980s-90s hip-hop culture; rarely used in everyday speech now.

Word Forms

deffer comparative, deffest superlative

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Etymology

A 1980s hip-hop slang clipping, most likely from "definitive" or "definitely."

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